Combining a mix of society's last word and both wit and wisdom, The Steeple Times covers food, drink and fine dining as well as luxury, travel, the arts, individuals of influence and current affairs in the United Kingdom, America and elsewhere. We are best described as being akin to "a cross between The Huffington Post and Private Eye".
The magazine's following is affluent, engaged and international. With 41% of readers coming from the UK and 38% from America, The Steeple Times also has strong presence within Canadian, Italian, German and Australian territories.
April 20, 2017
by Matthew Steeples
Gina Miller achieves 1,000% of target in less than 24 hours in crowdfunding drive to fund tactical voting initiative against hard Brexit On Wednesday, businesswoman and philanthropist Gina Miller launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise £10,000 to “support the country’s biggest tactical voting drive ever and stop extreme Brexit”. Within twenty-four hours, that target … Continue reading “Backing Best for Britain”
December 5, 2016
by Matthew Steeples
A 20-question interview with businesswoman and founder of the Sean Edwards Foundation Daphne McKinley The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? My guiding force is my son Sean who drives me forward since his death to make real changes in motorsport in order to stop unnecessary deaths. “Don’t get … Continue reading “Daphne McKinley – What’s on your mantelpiece?”
May 19, 2016
by General
Gourmet popcorn entrepreneur Cassandra Stavrou is based in Barnet, North London and counted Google as her first customer.
January 29, 2016
by General
A “trolley dolly” turned CEO of Britain’s biggest estate agency, Alison Platt sees no difference between selling bleach and houses.
June 10, 2015
by General
Described as being “born to make soup”, Ena Baxter was anything but a “sweet old dear pottering around her kitchen”.
September 24, 2014
by General
The last surviving Mitford sister, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire was nicknamed “the housewife duchess”
July 6, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
Born in Barnstaple, Hopkins is a serial reality contestant who is serially capable of making seriously stupid remarks. This blonde blabbermouth was once a stand-by contestant for Big Brother and appeared on both The Apprentice and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! in 2007. During and after her stint in competitive television, Hopkins … Continue reading “Katie Hopkins (nicknames include The Wicked Witch of the West, Cruella De Vil, Widow Twanky, Miss Piggy and Patrick Bateman)”
June 23, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
Rachel Elnaugh shares some rather strange views on Stuart Hall’s sentence on Twitter As it is reported that jailed paedophile Stuart Hall is facing another seventeen allegations of sexual abuse, The Steeple Times was surprised to receive a series of tweets from the former Dragons’ Den panelist Rachel Elnaugh stating her surprise at the … Continue reading “Hall’s Dragon”
June 17, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
An attention seeker who needs to be removed from our screens A contestant on The Apprentice who stated that she has “the energy of a Duracell bunny, the sex appeal of Jessica Rabbit and a brain like Einstein” most definitely had to be our second Wally of the Week.
June 8, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
Katie Price is hardly a person in a position to give advice to Madonna on cosmetic surgery Katie Price has racked up six names and three marriages since being born in 1978. Described as “football-boobed” by The Mirror, the glamour model used her weekly column in The Sun today to attack Madonna.
June 7, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
The Steeple Times asks interpreter and businesswoman Alexandra Naylor: “What’s on your mantelpiece?” The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force? Faith, hope and love. “Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours? Treat others the way you want to be treated. … Continue reading “Alexandra Naylor: “What’s on your mantelpiece?””
May 18, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
When her husband left her, she could of ‘moaned’ but instead she got on with it and paid her now ex-husband some £24 million for his share of her lingerie business. Glasgow born, Mone “”grew up a Scottish, Labour voting Protestant and is now a Conservative voting Catholic” but it is for her patented Ultimo … Continue reading “Michelle Mone OBE”
May 11, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
The youngest woman to have become a self-made billionaire ever. A former comedian and door-to-door fax machine saleswoman, Blakely founded the privately held Spanx undergarment business at the age of 27. Sales took off in 2000 when Oprah Winfrey endorsed the product and then when she signed a contract with QVC, 8,000 pairs were sold … Continue reading “Sara Blakely”
March 20, 2013
by Matthew Steeples
This Lancastrian tycoon transformed the Dragons’ Den with her 80s style shoulder pads and comments such as “he made my foot itch”. Thrice married Devey has five homes around the world and claims to have “felt sexism in every way conceiveable”. She’s “proud to pay tax” and dubs David Cameron “weak”. By ‘eck.
November 26, 2012
by Matthew Steeples
Co-owner of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills with her husband R. J., Cohen is of surprisingly humble origins. She grew up on a chicken farm in Cleveland, Ohio but moved to LA with her divorced mother aged 13 when she opened a Kosher chicken killing plant on Santa Monica Boulevard. This hardworking lady now … Continue reading “Beverly Cohen”
November 20, 2012
by Matthew Steeples
A marine residence with a history tied to the Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy, the Special Operations Executive and Babycham The House on the Shore on Thorns Beach at Beaulieu in Hampshire is a home that wouldn’t look out of place in the Hamptons or Rhode Island. Dramatically situated next to the Solent waters to … Continue reading “Ecstasy and Babycham”
October 5, 2012
by Matthew Steeples
This “High Priestess of Homemaking” was brought up in ordinary surroundings in Jersey City, New Jersey but became a self-made business magnate, author, magazine publisher and television personality. A divorced mother of one, Stewart briefly dated Sir Anthony Hopkins but couldn’t help associating him with his Silence of the Lambs character, Hannibal Lecter, and so … Continue reading “Martha Stewart”
May 25, 2012
by Matthew Steeples
Whatever she does, “The House of Hancock comes first.” This little known Australian daughter of a bush pilot and prospector is now the world’s richest woman with a worth of some £18 billion. Known as the “Iron Lady,” twice-married Rinehart’s fortune is expanding at a rate of £21,000 a second and if this continues this … Continue reading “Gina Rinehart”
April 27, 2012
by Matthew Steeples
Jimmy Choo named a shoe after her and eyebobs collaborated with her to launch the “Iris” in January 2012. This nanogenarian businesswoman, interior designer and fashion icon also worked for nine presidents at The White House: Truman, Eisenhowever, Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagan and Clinton.
by Matthew Steeples
The great granddaughter of the founder of Hilton Hotels is best known for her phrase: “That’s hot” and a sex tape but she’s the one having the last laugh. She’s only in her early 30s but already worth $100 million.
by Matthew Steeples
This glamour model is to be commended for having made a fortune. Her taste in men and cars however is utterly lacking. Her pink Range Rover is perhaps symbolic of all that is wrong about her.
by Matthew Steeples
This Geordie Vegan campaigner got some £24 million in her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney. She’s continued to cause trouble ever since.
April 10, 2012
by Matthew Steeples
Profile: The genius of self-promotion that is Paris Hilton At a dinner party last week, my guests gasped in horror when I said that I view Paris Hilton to be a genius. Their faces turned ashen and one asked if I had lost the plot. In the ensuing discussion, several described her as the … Continue reading “Prospering Paris”
